Fantastic experiments from Richard Hammonds TV series Blast Lab" now in paperback. Get experimental with your kids
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Banishing his cousin Bolingbroke King Richard II prevents a dispute from turning bloody. But Richard is an arrogant & despotic ruler prone to tyranny & vanity who listens only to his flatterers. As favour turns against him & Bolingbroke returns to reclaim his land Richard is humbled & grieved to see that the throne given to him by God might be taken from him by men. ...

The bitter deformed brother of the King is secretly plotting to seize the throne of Engl&. Charming & duplicitous powerfully eloquent & viciously cruel he is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve his goal & in his skilful manipulation of events & people Richard is a chilling incarnation of the lure of evil & the temptation of power. ...

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Features: * Study methods * Introduction to the text * Summaries with critical notes * Themes & techniques

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The first biography to show what Richard III was really like. Not many people would claim to be saints or alternatively consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet afterwards Duke of Gloucester & later still King Richard III. Richards character has been besmirched as often as it has been defended & the arguments between his detractors & supporters still rage after several centuries. Was he a ruthless hunchback who butchered his way to the throne a paragon of virtue who became a victim of Tudor propaganda or (as seems more likely) something in between? Some would argue that a true biography is impossible because the letters & other personal documents required for this purpose are simply not available; but David Baldwin has overcome this by an in-depth study of his dealings with his contemporaries. The fundamental question he has answered is what was Richard III really like. ...

In 2012 Annette Carson formed part of the team that discovered King Richard IIIs mortal remains verified in 2013 by forensics including DNA matching. In response to the recent upsurge of interest her 2009 paperback has been updated with details of the discovery plus new illustrations & a larger typeface for easier readability. Carsons premise is that for centuries the vision of Richard III has been dominated by the fictional creations of Thomas More & Shakespeare. Many voices some of them eminent & scholarly have urged a more reasoned view to replace the traditional black portrait. This book seeks to redress the balance by examining the events of his reign as they actually happened based on reports in the original sources. Eschewing the overlay of assumptions so beloved by historians she instead traces actions & activities of the principal characters using facts & time-lines revealed in documentary evidence. In the process Carson dares to investigate areas where historians fear to tread & raises many controversial questions. ...

The reign of Richard III was one of the shortest in English history: yet the King himself was one of the most enigmatic personalities to have occupied the throne. Only 31 at the time of his death Richard in his brief career demonstrated an extraordinary range of contradictory qualities
- staunch loyalty & dissimulating perfidy dignified generosity & ruthless self-interest scrupulous honesty in government & a cynical manipulativeness. From the later 18th century onwards he has been a hero for those who are drawn to lost causes.
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The only biography to include the findings of the archaeological dig in the Leicester car park. Not many people would claim to be saints or alternatively consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet afterwards Duke of Gloucester & later still King Richard III. Richard's character has been besmirched as often as it has been defended & the arguments between his detractors & supporters still rage after several centuries. Was he a ruthless hunchback who butchered his way to the throne a paragon of virtue who became a victim of Tudor propaganda or (as seems more likely) something in between? Some would argue that a true biography is impossible because the letters & other personal documents required for this purpose are simply not available; but David Baldwin has overcome this by an in-depth study of his dealings with his contemporaries. The fundamental question he has answered is 'what was Richard III really like'. Consists of 81 illustrations 57 of which are in colour. ...

Richard III is accused of murdering his nephews (the Princes in the Tower) in order to usurp the throne of Engl&. Since Tudor times he has been painted as the black legend the murderous uncle. However the truth is much more complicated & interesting. Rather than looking at all the killings Richard III did not commit this book focuses on the one execution for which we know that he was responsible. On Friday 13 June 1483 William Lord Hastings was hustled from a meeting of the Royal Council & summarily executed on Tower Green within the confines of the Tower of London. Peter A. Hancock sheds light on the mystery of this precipitate & unadvised action by the then Duke of Gloucester & reveals the key role of William Catesby in Richards ascent to the throne of Engl&. It explains his curious actions during that tumultuous summer of three kings & provides an explanation for the fate of the Princes in the Tower. ...

A major new biography of the young Richard III. Richard III is a paradox
- the most hated of English kings yet the most beloved
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